Search Results for: Middle East
Global Law firm announced new association in Southeast Asia
June 1st, 2016
Leading global law firm Hogan Lovells has announced today that it will enter into an association with Indonesian law firm, Dewi Negara Fachri & Partners (DNFP). The association becomes effective from 1 June 2016. Hogan Lovells has also recruited ...
HSBC Plans New Mideast Headquarters Near World’s Tallest Tower
January 18th, 2016
20-storey tower to be built in Dubai’s Emaar square by 2017 Construction to start in few days, HSBC to move staff in 2018 HSBC Holdings Plc will start building a new Middle East headquarters near the world’s tallest tower ...
Southeast Asia Launches Huge Trade Bloc
December 30th, 2015
Ten countries formalize their integration efforts in a bid to rebalance regional power and riches Ten Southeast Asian nations start an ambitious, U.S.-backed experiment on Thursday: integrating their economies in a bid to bring more global sway and prosperity ...
Mideast Stocks Fall as Saudi Arabia Mulls Budget Cut on Oil Drop
August 26th, 2015
Dubai’s benchmark gauge is biggest decliner in region Brent crude has dropped almost 60 percent in 12 months Most Middle Eastern stock markets declined amid mounting concern the region’s largest economy will cut spending after oil prices slumped to the ...
Mideast digital economy to hit $30b by 2018
July 13th, 2015
The Middle East business landscape is quickly adopting latest technologies to capture competitive advantages arising from leveraging the Internet of Things and leveraging mobile technology in their core businesses. An SAP and Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report indicates that ...
Silo But Deadly: Fonetic Unveils Unified Front, Middle and Back Office Information Management Solution for Trading Operations
June 25th, 2015
Automatic Trade Reconstruction (ATR™) fuses together trade & communications data for optimised trading processes Fonetic today unveiled ATR™ integra, the first linguistics-based trade reconstruction solution to automatically collect, analyse and match all trade-related data to their corresponding voice and ...
Asian stocks mixed as Mideast worries linger, oil eases
March 27th, 2015
Asian stocks were mixed on Friday and the dollar rebounded as rising tensions in the Middle East clouded the investment outlook. Spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE .FTSE, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI and France’s CAC.FCHI to tip toe higher while the markets awaited fresh cues from ...
Standard Chartered to close MidEast branches
November 13th, 2014
Standard Chartered is set to cull an unspecified number of branches in the Middle East, as part of plans to cut up to 100 locations in emerging markets next year in a bid to save $400 million. The global ...
Brent Extends Drop as Mideast Oil Supply Stays Safe; WTI Steady
August 25th, 2014
Brent fell for a second day amid speculation that turmoil across the Middle East won’t threaten crude supplies. West Texas Intermediate was steady in New York after a technical issue disrupted electronic trading. “The region is in chaos but ...
Global crypto user base surpassed half a billion in 2023 — Crypto.com report
January 26th, 2024
A research report from Crypto.com estimates the number of worldwide cryptocurrency users surged to 580 million people in 2023. More than half a billion people had become cryptocurrency users or owners by the end of 2023, according to a ...
